Jamie

A great question deserves an answer. Gambling, too many flags, and the softening of the game to allow for subjective rules interpretations. The Bro-ification of sports from McAfee, Kelce, etc… It’s just geared for people with an IQ of 90 who are blissfully ignorant.

The refs are the show now. Football was better when the mafia controlled sports betting. Monday night used to be THE NIGHT! Kickoff was 9PM, it was the biggest game of the week. Now? Nothing. No excitement. Why? Because you spent 9 hours watching it on Sunday. Plus another 3 from Thursday, by the time you get to Monday night, you’re on 12+ hours of football. Shows like ESPN NFL Primetime and HBO’s inside the NFL would catch you up with the league in a cinematic informative style. Now you get Kay Adams’ vocal fry, Dianna Russini fucking an NFL coach and middle aged men like Pat McAfee, Jason Kelce, and Ryan Fitzpatrick acting like drunken belligerent assholes so much I have to mute my TV. It’s slop. It’s for the lowest level of beta wave thinking and I’m just fucking done with all of it. Fuck you Roger Goodell, fuck you Draft Kings and Fan Duel, and fuck you Art Rooney II, you can have my tax dollars when you pry them from my cold dead hands!

Yesterday, I announced this will be my last season watching the NFL. It’s not just the gambling commercials, Jason Kelce, and the international slopification of the sport. The game isn’t the same. It’s not close to what made it great. The referees control the game with calls and no-calls, just like the NBA. There is no flow to a game. The natural energy is gone because almost every play is flagged and/or reviewed. It feels like I spend 3 hours of my life watching 10 minutes of action that is open to subjective interpretations by officials. It’s really simple; I am no longer entertained, I am annoyed. The NFL won’t miss me but I won’t miss them either.